Improving Developer Experience with Backstage
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Company portal Backstage is an open source internal developer platform built at Spotify that centralizes docs, CI/CD, monitoring and ownership into an extendable catalog; adoption cuts median days to first useful pull request from 60 to 20, now has over 120 plugins with ~80% contributed externally, is in CNCF incubation and used by 250+ companies. Example features shown: the golden path onboarding flow and software templates scaffolder that creates repo, infra and dashboards.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:24What is Backstage
- 3:57Spotify’s early struggles
- 7:50Principles behind redesign
- 9:16Inner sourcing success
- 10:38Open sourcing to CNCF
- 13:53Demo: Golden Path onboarding
- 16:25Software catalog exploration
- 18:36CI/CD with GitHub Actions
- 20:25API documentation benefits
- 21:50Microservices templates
- 24:19Tech radar plugin
- 25:22Internal marketplace
- 27:34Tool integration
- 29:01Developer happiness
- 31:09Key takeaways
- 34:02How to get started with Backstage today
- 35:05Q&A
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